Three Healthcare Buys That Wall Street Loves
Healthcare stocks are hot right now. Several factors are driving them higher, including innovations in areas like heart disease and immunotherapy, as well as increasingly effective treatments for obesity and diabetes. Those new technologies are emerging just as the population is aging. Also, the healthcare sector tends to weather economic downturns well, so it contains defensive stocks for investors worried about a coming contraction or market correction.
Lots of healthcare stocks are outperforming the broader market this year (as measured by the S&P 500 index, which is up about 15.5% year to date). But here are three that Wall Street has shown particular affection for in 2025.
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